A 31-year-old Mississippi man has been sentenced to jail for pointing a handgun at another motorist on Seaway Drive in Norton Shores.

Brian Rutland, also known as Ruthland, of Saltillo, Miss., was sentenced last week to 4 1/2 months in jail with work release, 18 months on probation and $520 in fines and costs. Muskegon County Circuit Judge James M. Graves Jr. imposed the sentence Tuesday after Rutland pleaded no contest to assault with a dangerous weapon and carrying a concealed weapon.

Police said Rutland pointed a gun at a 21-year-old Muskegon man driving another vehicle shortly after midnight last Oct. 21 while Rutland was a passenger in a truck on northbound Seaway Drive near Broadway Avenue. The complainant told police he was "cut off" by the truck, and that when he pulled alongside, the front-seat passenger pointed a pistol at him.

The caller got the truck's license plate number. Based on that, police stopped the truck and found a semiautomatic pistol. The driver and another passenger told police Rutland "brandished" the gun at the other motorist, and Rutland was arrested.